Kiran Bedi, leading academic lights in Symbiosis of unity and transformation

It was brainstorming at its best on Thursday morning at Taj Business Bay, Dubai, at an event organised by Symbiosis Dubai.

- Raghib Hassan, Staff Reporter

Symbiosis Dubai, the international campus of India's prestigious Symbiosis International (Deemed University), had hosted its flagship HR Conclave, The Power of People. The ballroom of the hotel was bubbling with joy as students, faculty members and invited guests, had assembled to listen to India's first woman police officer and former Lt. Governor of Puducherry Dr. Kiran Bedi, filmmaker Kabir Khan and other experts from different walks of life.

Bedi spoke on “The power of one: Unit ing people for Transformation,” regaling the audience with her thoughts and inspirational words. Her journey itself is an inspiration for people. She has dared to do what she felt was right throughout her celebrated career. She spoke about her journey of becoming India's first woman police officer to being at the helm of Tihar prison, to discharging her duty as Lt. Governor of Puducherry. She showed through her presentation how she used her position to transform the lives of ordinary people wherever she worked. She concluded: “This is how a leader can transform society.”

Her audio-visual presentation showed how she has touched the minds and hearts of common people through her inclusive style of leadership. Addressing the audience, she said that “all those who are sitting here in this room have the capacity to transform the society.”

She cited the example of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Malala Yousafzai, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Mother Teresa and Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, to narrate how one person could change the course of history.